Icing Recipe

4 cups sugar

1/2 pint hot water

4 eggs beaten

citric acid about size of pea

vanilla



Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4

eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one

teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers

and over cake.



This keeps a long time in a locked closet.





Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks

are gentlemen. Burton.

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